40k Reading Atlas

Imperial Guard Timeline

Original summaries and chronology labels generated from the same catalog powering the atlas.

Krieg

Steve Lyons

A Guard-focused novel that gives the Death Korps a dedicated lane without making their long institutional history look like one exact event.

NovelImperial GuardDeath Korps of Kriegstandalone

949.M40 - 949.M40

exact date, high confidence

First and Only

Dan Abnett

The first Tanith novel, built around survival, command, and a regiment trying to matter in a vast war.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

765.M41 - 768.M41

range date, medium confidence

Ghostmaker

Dan Abnett

A character-building Gaunt's Ghosts entry that fills in the regiment's early campaigns and why the Tanith survive as more than a lost-world relic.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

765.M41 - 768.M41

range date, medium confidence

Necropolis

Dan Abnett

A defining Guard siege novel that turns the Ghosts into part of a larger Imperial war machine while reshaping the regiment's identity.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsessential

768.M41 - 768.M41

exact date, high confidence

Honour Guard

Dan Abnett

A holy-war Guard entry where the Ghosts move from battlefield disgrace into a mission shaped by relics, faith, and impossible timing.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

769.M41 - 769.M41

exact date, high confidence

The Guns of Tanith

Dan Abnett

A campaign-focused Ghosts novel that shifts the regiment into a high-risk operation tied to Imperial supply lines and air-war pressure.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

771.M41 - 771.M41

exact date, high confidence

Straight Silver

Dan Abnett

A grinding war-front entry that shows the Ghosts trapped inside older military thinking while the Sabbat campaign keeps demanding adaptation.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsoptional

772.M41 - 772.M41

exact date, high confidence

Double Eagle

Dan Abnett

A Sabbat Worlds spin-off that moves the reader-decision lane from infantry survival to the air war supporting the wider Imperial retreat and counterattack.

NovelImperial GuardSabbat Worldsstandalone

773.M41 - 773.M41

exact date, high confidence

Sabbat Martyr

Dan Abnett

A pivotal Saint-focused Ghosts novel where battlefield duty and religious symbolism collide around the Crusade's moral center.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsessential

773.M41 - 773.M41

exact date, high confidence

Traitor General

Dan Abnett

A behind-enemy-lines Ghosts novel that narrows the huge Crusade into a desperate Imperial special operation with strategic consequences.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

774.M41 - 774.M41

exact date, high confidence

His Last Command

Dan Abnett

A command-and-identity entry where the surviving Ghosts have to re-enter Imperial structures after a mission that changed their place in the war.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

776.M41 - 776.M41

exact date, high confidence

The Armour of Contempt

Dan Abnett

A liberation-war Ghosts novel that tests what Imperial victory means when the same world has already scarred the regiment.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

777.M41 - 777.M41

exact date, high confidence

Only in Death

Dan Abnett

A fortress-defense Ghosts entry that turns the regiment's endurance into the central question while command and morale fracture under pressure.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

778.M41 - 778.M41

exact date, high confidence

Titanicus

Dan Abnett

A Sabbat Worlds spin-off that gives Titan warfare its own map presence while staying tied to the Crusade's industrial and strategic stakes.

NovelImperial GuardSabbat Worldsstandalone

779.M41 - 779.M41

exact date, high confidence

Blood Pact

Dan Abnett

A quieter but tense Ghosts entry where rear-line security becomes dangerous and the enemy's discipline starts to matter as much as its numbers.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

780.M41 - 780.M41

exact date, high confidence

Salvation's Reach

Dan Abnett

A raid-focused Ghosts novel that turns the regiment toward intelligence gathering and sets up the later Urdesh endgame.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

781.M41 - 781.M41

exact date, high confidence

The Warmaster

Dan Abnett

A late Ghosts sequence entry that brings the regiment into the Urdesh campaign and raises the stakes around the Crusade's high command.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

791.M41 - 791.M41

exact date, high confidence

The Anarch

Dan Abnett

A late Ghosts culmination point that pulls years of Sabbat Worlds fighting into a direct confrontation with the enemy's command structure.

NovelImperial GuardGaunt's Ghostsmajor

792.M41 - 792.M41

exact date, high confidence

Caves of Ice

Sandy Mitchell

Cain's second core novel keeps the accessible memoir voice while moving the Guard lane into a different kind of survival problem.

NovelImperial GuardCiaphas Cainmajor

931.M41 - 936.M41

range date, medium confidence

Duty Calls

Sandy Mitchell

A later Cain entry that continues the human-scale Guard perspective while broadening the political and battlefield complications around him.

NovelImperial GuardCiaphas Cainoptional

931.M41 - 936.M41

range date, medium confidence

For the Emperor

Sandy Mitchell

A fast, accessible Guard novel with a lighter voice and a useful human-scale view of 40k.

NovelImperial GuardCiaphas Cainmajor

931.M41 - 931.M41

exact date, high confidence

The Traitor's Hand

Sandy Mitchell

Cain's Guard lane crosses into a more directly heretical threat while keeping the series' focus on reputation, luck, and survival.

NovelImperial GuardCiaphas Cainmajor

936.M41 - 936.M41

exact date, high confidence

The Greater Good

Sandy Mitchell

A late Cain novel where Imperial Guard pragmatism collides with xenos diplomacy and the larger dangers pressing the eastern fringe.

NovelImperial GuardCiaphas Cainoptional

992.M41 - 992.M41

exact date, high confidence

Vainglorious

Sandy Mitchell

A late Cain entry that keeps his memoir lane active near the end of M41, with reputation and survival still pulling against each other.

NovelImperial GuardCiaphas Cainoptional

992.M41 - 992.M41

exact date, high confidence

13th Legion

Gav Thorpe

The Last Chancers begin as a harsher Guard lane, focused on condemned soldiers and missions where survival is not the expected outcome.

NovelImperial GuardLast Chancersoptional

995.M41 - 995.M41

approximate date, medium confidence

Kill Team

Gav Thorpe

The Last Chancers lane continues with a tighter mission structure, using the penal-legion premise to show a rougher edge of Imperial warfare.

NovelImperial GuardLast Chancersoptional

995.M41 - 996.M41

range date, medium confidence